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Here’s Bob Ross feeding a baby squirrel with a bottle
It's a video of "happy little trees" painter Bob Ross feeding a squirrel from a bottle. There's really just nothing else to say about this.
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David Quammen says we better brace for the next Big One
The veteran science writer isn't worried about earthquakes -- he's talking about diseases that come from wild animals as we tear into the Earth's last wild places.
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Here’s why you should never stick your head out of a train window
We get it: Trains are cool, and wind in your hair is cool, and you like to put cool things on Instagram. But this video of a girl sticking her […]
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London’s proposed commuter canal would let you swim to work
Two architects have proposed an 8-mile swimming/skating lane in London. It's probably not going to happen. But it should, and it makes us think every city should just do something crazy and beautiful like this.
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Miracle fish: Is the search for the perfect farmed seafood really over?
As an herbivorous fish that makes its own omega-3 fatty acids, the barramundi is a promising farmed choice. But even this relatively green species doesn't solve all aquaculture's problems.
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Nature-loving kid aims to be photographed with every type of animal on Earth
In the last 11 years, Tallon Nightwalker has been photographed with more than 840 animals, live and up close. But he’s still got more than 25,000 to go to reach […]
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This 30,000-square-foot building is made out of beer bottles
The Morrow Royal Pavilion looks like some kind of palace, but it's made of crushed beer bottles mixed with fly ash.
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This urn uses your ashes to grow a tree to (sort of) take your place
A French designer has created something called the Poetree, so that your loved one can plant a tree in your ashes and you can live on forever. You'll be living on forever as a tree, but it's better than nothing.
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What would it mean to treat climate change like a security threat?
In the realm of national security, we accept the need to make decisions in the face of clashing worldviews and incomplete information. David Roberts wonders what climate hawks can learn from security hawks.
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Obscenely rich people can raise obscenely rich chickens in this $100,000 coop
Neiman Marcus is selling a chicken coop. It costs a lot. It will make people think rich people are even more disgusting than they already are, which is pretty disgusting.
